Where: Azerbaijan (46.8° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 44.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 11 Member, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, lenticular, tuffaceous gravel
•bedded to massive; the member lower part is exposed in
•a precipice (20–25 m) and the upper one in stepwise
•cliffs (about 30 m). Near the member base, there are
•sporadic lenses and interlayers of loose tuffaceous
•sandstone and gravelstone with clay admixture.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. A. Zakharov and A. A. Kasumzade. 2005. On the boreal genus Buchia (Bivalvia) from the Tithonian of the lesser Caucasus. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 13(6):606-612 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 130889: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 16.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites)
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites) Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite | |
Lamellaptychus beyrichi ammonoid aptychus | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenoides sp. Mörch 1853 file clam | |
Arctostrea cf. rectangularis oyster |